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1.3 Hutchison Background

Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong) Limited was formed innuary Whampoa Group's mobilen telephone, paging and fixed line network services in Hong Kong.

 Hutchison Telecom was the first operator in Hong Kong to run three digital mobile networks simultaneously. Launched in 1995 and was named "Xin Gan Xian" in 1997, Hutchison's world first CDMA network, targeting at a younger market, has over 600 cell sites throughout the territory. The network currently covers 99 percent of the populated areas and has ensured a successful call rate of 99 percent. The PCS network that is launched in March 1997 is developing at a remarkable speed, providing comprehensive service with attractive tariff to its subscribers. Hutchison also pioneers in launching Asia's first dual band network in September 1998. Combining GSM's outstanding coverage and PCS' powerful capacity, the dual band network, Orange has nearly 1,500 cell sites, providing a wide international automatic roaming coverage to over 91 countries and cities around the world.

Hutchison Telecom is the leading paging network operator in Hong Kong with the lion's share of the paging market. The company's latest multi-lingual pager, Hutchison Fire Bird and the innovative "Information-On-Demand" service enhances pager as a communication and information tool. In addition, users can always in easy touch throughout China with the company's nationwide pager roaming service.

Awarded with a Fixed Telecommunications Network Service (FTNS) license in mid-1995, Hutchison Telecom launched its fixed network service in Hong Kong and is now providing users with customer-oriented and advanced international calling and data transmission services like the ATM and ISDN services. With substantial progress in the infrastructure development of the local telephony service, the company targets at expanding the coverage scope of local phone services on a territory-wide basis.

To cater for the increasing demand on the Internet service, the company has also inaugurated a content-rich & quick-to-access Internet service under the brand name of "HutchCity" in November 1998. "HutchBusiness" & "HutchHome" are two other multimedia services introduced by the company to serve the needs of commercial & household users respectively.  

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